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Virgin Sacrifice and the Meaning of the Parthenon

12-2-2014 < Red Ice Creations 223 67 words
 

Was the Parthenon used as a site for virgin sacrifice? A new book contends that we may not really understand this iconic monument. Don DeLillo’s novel The Names opens with the narrator wandering in modern Athens, trying to avoid the city’s imposing past. “For a long time I stayed away from the Acropolis. It daunted me, that somber rock… The weight ...
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